Struve is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Astronomers

Struve family The Struve family (pronounced in German, in Russian) were a Baltic nobility, Baltic German noble family of Eastphalian origin and originated in Magdeburg, the family produced five generations of astronomers from the 18th to 20th centuries. Membe ...

Jacob Struve Jacob Struve (also Jakob Struve; November 21, 1755 – April 2, 1841) was a German mathematician and father of the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. Jacob Struve was born in 1755, in Horst, Holstein. He was the youngest of the four ...

(1755–1841) *

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (, trans. ''Vasily Yakovlevich Struve''; 15 April 1793 – ) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve ...

(1793–1864), son of Jacob *

Otto Wilhelm von Struve Otto Wilhelm von Struve (May 7, 1819 (Julian calendar: April 25) – April 14, 1905) was a Russian astronomer of Baltic German origins. In Russian, his name is normally given as Otto Vasil'evich Struve (Отто Васильевич Струве). ...

(1819–1905), son of Friedrich * Gustav Wilhelm Ludwig Struve (Ludwig Struve, 1858–1920), son of Otto *

Karl Hermann Struve Karl Hermann von Struve ( – 12 August 1920) was a Baltic German astronomer. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as ''German Ottovich Struve'' (Герман Оттович Струве) or ''German Ottonovich Struve'' (Герман Отто� ...

(Hermann Struve, 1854–1920), son of Otto *

Otto Struve Otto Lyudvigovich Struve (; 12 August 1897 – 6 April 1963) was a Russian-American astronomer of Baltic German origin. Otto was the descendant of famous astronomers of the Struve family; he was the son of Ludwig Struve, grandson of Otto Wilhel ...

(1897–1963), son of Ludwig *

Georg Hermann Struve Georg Otto Hermann Struve (; 29 December 1886 – 10 June 1933) was a German astronomer from the Struve family and the son of Hermann Struve. Georg was born in 1886 in Tsarskoye Selo – a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visi ...

(Georg Struve, 1886–1933), son of Hermann *

Wilfried Struve Wilfried Hermann Georg Struve (1914–1992) was a German scientist. He started his career as a sixth-generation astronomer, a direct successor in the famous family line of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, Otto Wilhelm, Hermann, Georg Hermann Struve. He f ...

(1914–1992), son of Georg

Other people

Burkhard Gotthelf Struve Burkhard Gotthelf Struve (26 May 1671 - 25 May 1738) was a scholarly German librarian who became a polymath-historian based, for most of his academic career, at the University of Jena. Life Struve was born in Weimar, his mother's second son. Hi ...

(1671-1738), German librarian and historian *

Amand Struve Amand Yegorovich Struve (; 30 May 1835 – 12 September 1898) was a Baltic German military engineer and bridge specialist of Russian Empire. Struve's relatives included diplomats, engineers, government officials and military officers. He was a g ...

(1835–1898), Baltic German military engineer and bridge specialist * Detlef Struve (1903-1987), German politician *

Gleb Struve Gleb Petrovich Struve (Russian: Глеб Петрович Струве; 1 May 1898 – 4 June 1985) was a Russian poet and literary historian. Biography Gleb Petrovich Struve was born on 1 May 1898. His father was the political theorist Peter Ber ...

(1898–1985), Russian-American poet and literary historian, son of Peter *

Gustav Struve Gustav Struve, known as Gustav von Struve until he gave up his title (11 October 1805 – 21 August 1870), was a German surgeon, politician, lawyer and publicist, and a revolutionary during the German revolutions of 1848–1849 in Baden, Germa ...

(1805–1870), Southern German politician and revolutionary * Henryk Struve (1840–1912), Polish philosopher *

Karl de Struve Karl von Struve (26 November 1835 – 26 June 1907) () (Alternate spelling in U.S.: de Struve) was a Baltic German Baltic Germans ( or , later ) are Germans, ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today ...

(1835–1907), Russian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Tokyo, Washington, and the Hague *

Nikita Struve Nikita Alexeyevich Struve (; 16 February 1931 – 7 May 2016) was a French author and translator of Russian descent, specializing in the study of Russian émigrés. Biography Struve was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris, into the Str ...

(1931–2016), Russian-French editor specializing in Russian literature, nephew of Gleb and grandson of Peter * Peter Berngardovich Struve (1870–1944), Russian political economist, philosopher and editor, grandson of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm *

Stefan Struve Stefan Struve (; born February 18, 1988) is a Dutch former mixed martial artist who competed as a heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Standing at tall, he is the tallest fighter in the history of the UFC. Background Growing ...

(born 1988), Dutch mixed martial artist *

Vasily Vasilievich Struve Vasily Vasilievich Struve (; in Saint Petersburg, Petersburg, Russian Empire – September 15, 1965 in Leningrad) was a Soviet Union, Soviet oriental studies, orientalist from the Struve family, the founder of the Soviet scientific school of rese ...

(1889–1965), Soviet Orientalist

Things named after the Struve astronomers

* 2227 Otto Struve, an asteroid named after Otto Struve *

Struve (crater) Struve is the lava-flooded remains of a lunar impact crater. It is located near the western extreme of the Oceanus Procellarum, close to the western lunar limb. As a consequence, even though it is roughly circular in outline, it appears oval due t ...

, a crater on the Moon *

Struve function In mathematics, the Struve functions , are solutions of the non-homogeneous Bessel's differential equation: : x^2 \frac + x \frac + \left (x^2 - \alpha^2 \right )y = \frac introduced by . The complex number α is the order of the Struve functio ...

s, named after Karl Hermann Struve *

Struve Geodetic Arc The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over , which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian arc. The chain was established ...

, a World Heritage Site *

Otto Struve Telescope The Otto Struve Telescope was the first major telescope to be built at McDonald Observatory. Located in the Davis Mountains in West Texas, the Otto Struve Telescope was designed by Warner & Swasey Company and constructed between 1933 and 1939 b ...

, a telescope of McDonald Observatory *

Struve Double Star Catalog Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (, trans. ''Vasily Yakovlevich Struve''; 15 April 1793 – ) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geo ...

, compiled by F. G. W. Struve *

Struve 1341 HD 80606 and HD 80607 are two stars comprising a binary star system. They are 215 light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major. Both stars orbit each other at an average distance of 1,200 astronomical units. The binary system is li ...

, a binary star system with an extrasolar planet * Struve 2398, a binary star system

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